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VOLUME III. POMEROY, MEIGS COUNTY, OHIO, TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1860. NUMBER 2
HT. LAKTS- " L. FAIRS.
PLANTS A- PAINE,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law, Pomeroy, O.
Office in Edward's Building.
S. A. IDEKiF. P- STANSCRY.
- BCRNAF fc STA5BERY,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law. Particular
' attention paid to the collection of claims. Of-
fice on Front street, at the head of Steamboat
-Landing, a few doors east of the Gibson House
- Pomeroy, 0. . ' 2-38-ly '
. , SIMP SOW Sir LASLEY, t
' Attorneys & Counselors at Law, and general
Collecting agents, Pomeroy, O. . Ofi5ce in the
Court House. 2-$-ly.
' ''''.'
.' . S. t. MOWLH. C. H. OROBVBHOB.
? , ' KIOWLES 6ROSTENOR, .
Attorneys 'at laVt Athens, Ajiens County, O,
wilV attend the seeVa Courts of Meigs County,
on the first day of eich term. Office at the
"Gibson House." . -' . ' 2-16-ly
MARTIN HATS,
Attorney-at-Law, HarrisonvilleJ Meigs Co., 0,
will promptly attend to all business that may
be entrusted to his care, in the geveral State
Courts of Ohio,and in the U. S. Court for the
Northern and Southern Districts of Ohiftr. 3-8
W. . OOLDES. L. S. TSWMSIND .
GOLDEN St, TOWN SEND.
Attorneys at Law. W.Tt. Golden's Office in
Athens, O., and L. S. Townsend's in PageVille,
Meigs Co., 0. Prompt attention given to the
sollection of claims, and other business en
trusted to them. 2-46-ly
PETER LAMBRECHT,
Watchmaker & Dealer in Watches, Clocks, Jew
elry and Fancy Articles, Court street, below
. the new Banking House, Pomeroy. . Watches,
Clocks and Jewelry carefully repaired on short
notice. ,' , 1-1
W. A. AICHER,
Watchmaker and Jeweler, and wholesale and
retail dealer in Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and
Fancy Goods, Front street, below the "Reming
ton House,'' Pomeroy. Particular attention
paid to repairing all articles in my line. 1-1
T.WHITESIDE,
Manufacturer of Boots and Shoes, three
doors above stone bridge. The best of
"work, for Ladies and Gentlemen, made to order.
MeQ,UIGr S SMITH,
Leather Dealers and Finders, Court street, three
'-doors below the Bank, and opposite Branch's
Store, Pomeroy, O.
IGAR RUN SALT COMPANY.
'Salt twenty-five cents per bushel. Office near
'the Furnace. l-l C. GRANT, Agent.
POMEROY SALT COMPANY.
Salt twenty-five cents per Utishel. 1-1
DAB3EY SALT COMPANSr,
Coalport.. Salt twenty-five cents .'per "bushel
for country trade. G. W. COOPER, Sec'y.
ISAAC FALLEH,
Clothier, Grocer and Dry . Goods Dealer, first
'store above C. E. Donnally's, near the Rolling
Mill, Pomeroy, O. Country Merchants are re
spectfully requested to call and examine my
stirk of Groceries, as I am confident that I
cannot be undersold. 1-23
' P. LYMAN,
Painter and Glaxier, back room of P. I.am
brecht's Jewelry Store, west side Court street,
Pomeroy, O. 1-1
JOHN EISELSTIN,
Saddle, Harness and Trunk Manufac
turer, Front street, three doors below
Court, Pomeroy, will execute all work en
trusted to his care with neatness and dispatch.
Saddles gotten up in the neatest style. 1-22
M. BLAETKER,
Carriage & Wagon Manufacturer,
Front street, first, corner below the
EH
Rolling Mill, Pomeroy, O. All articles in his
line of business manufactured at reasonable
rates, and they are especially recommended for
-lurability. 2-5-1 y
F. E. HUMPHREY,
Blacksmith, back of the Bank Building,
Pomeroy, 0. Farming Tools, Shovel
Pltrw. Mattocks, Hoes, &c on hand and
made to order. Horse Shoeing and all kinds
of Job Work done to order . , Jan. 3. 3-1
UNITED STATES HOTEL,.
M. A. Hudson, Proprietor, (formerly occu
pied by M. A. Webster, one square below
the Rolling Mill, Pomeroy, O. By endeavors to
accommodate both man and beast in the best
manner, Mr. Hudson hopes to receive a con
stantly increasing patronage, 2-5-ly
PILCHER HOUSE,
Racine, Ohio. This new and commodious
building has recently been furnished in the
best style, for the purpose of entertaining the
public travel. The undersigned will use every
exertion to make his guests comfortable, and
respectfully solicits a liberal patronage. -April
10, '60. 15-fim R. H. PILCHER.
. S. W. ROSS, -
Paper Hanger, . Glatier, &c, Pomeroy, Ohio.
Paper put on at from 12 J to 15 c'ts per bolt,
according to quality. Orders left at Telegraph
Printing Office promptly attended to. 1 7-2m
WM. RUST,
Tailor, Front street, a few doors west of Court,
Pomeroy, O. Men and Boy's clothes made to
order; also, cutting done. As I have a .No. 1
sewing machine, my facilities for doing work
are complete. 3-20-ly
PRANK COOPER,
Stone Mason & Bricklayer. Residence in
John Lance's Building, near the Catholic Church.
Dressed and Rubble stone work executed in
the best manner also, Bricklaying Cementing,
' &c, done at reasonable prices. Work war
ranted. 3-24-ly
-: A. KOHIi,
Dealer in and Manufacturer of Umbrel
las. He holds himself in readiness to
make Umbrellas to order, or repair old
ones in the most substantial manner. - He will
also buy worn-out Umbrellas at liberal prices.
Shop on Lnn street, north of Smith's Shoe
Store. -
He would also inform the pnblio that he pre
pares a SALVE, which he will warrant equal
to any in use, lor the cure of r elons, Catarrhs,
Burns, Bruises, Sprains, Cuts, Salt Rheum,
Ring Worm, Rheumatism, White Swellings,
and many other diseases of the kind. Price.
25 cents per Box. Jan. 3, I860. 3-ltf-
ggfTo Teachers. The Board of School Ex
aminers for Meigs County will meet on the
first Saturday of each month, at the Court
House, in Pomerov. for the examination of
Teacherg.
Examination to commence at IP o'clock A.
M., and continue till ii P. M.
ttgg-Ho Teacher need apply at such exami
nation who has a certificate valid for three
months from the date of said application.
By order of the Board.
Jan. 1800. W. H. LASLEY, Clerk.
APPRENTICES.
THOSE wishing to take boys or girls at any
mro from infancy to 14 years. t H-u with
them till of legal age, would be doing a public
benefit by making known their wishes to Mr.
cott, Superintendent of the Infirmary, neaj
inesier, or H) eiineroi we lasrunry mrecrors
Feb. 7, '60. tf. M. BOSWORTH.
DENTISTRY.
&,T, BQGGESS, DENTIST,
Is located at
RUTLAND.OHIO, Qxrf
"A 1 THERE he may at all times be found ready
VV to wait upon those who may favor him
With a call, unless he is professionally absent.
. All calls from a distance promptly attended to.
reb. 14, ixw. -em.
WM. P. RiTHBCRlt.
IDANIEL & RATHBURN;
BANK BLOCK, Pomeroy, O.
Collections made and promptly remitted; Busi
ness paper discounted; buy and sell
Exchange, Gold and " Siiver
Coin, Uncurrent Money
Land Warrants, &c.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
For sale in sums to suit. We are prepared to
draw direct on London, Liverpool, Swansea,
Glasgow, Dublin, Belfast, Paris, Amsterdam,
Baden-Baden, and other cities in Europe. Also,
Australia.
oney inheritances collect ed in every part
of Europe.
Money received on deposit, and interest al
lowedon time deposits, at rate agreed upon.
Jan. 17. 2-3-ly .
..GEORGE HJTT.T.EL,
Merchant Tailor and Clothier.
THE old customers of this house will
please bear in mind that I am still
3.
manufacturing clothing to order, in my
new building, on Court street, 2 doors from
Front, Pomeroy, Ohio. My facilities for get
ting up work is excellent, and I warrant it to
be made according to order.
READY-MADE CLOTHING
Kept constantly on hand. Gent's Furnishing
Goods, Cravats, Shirts, Collars, Gloves, &c, &c,
in good supply, and I take pleasure in inform
ing my friends that I will shortly have an in
creased stock.
Thankful for your former liberal patronage,
I hope to be able to offer inducements for its
continuance. GEO. HUTTEL.
Jan. 3, I860. 3-1-tf
CHAS. BICHMANN.
ANDREW BURKERT.
BICHMANN & BURKERT.
NO HUMBUG!
11 Small Profits and Quick Sales,"
IS THE MOTTO AT
Reed's Old fSta.X3.c3.,
Front Street, Pomeroy, O. ,
WE KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A
good assortment of Gold and Silver
Watches; German, French and American Jew
elry; Fancy Articles; Clocks from $2.00 to 12.00,
of every size and description.
Repairing of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry,
done in the best manner, promptly. 2-1.
COALRIDGE MILL.
THE SUBSCRIBER DESIRES TO INFORM
the Wheat-growers of Meigs and adjoining
counties, that he will give, in exchange for one
bushel of good, clean Wheat, 42 pounds of
Flour.
Persons wishing large lots of Flour made,
can have it manufactured at 40 cents per brl
offal to go to the owner of the Wheat.
Persons residing between Parkersburg and
Gallipolis, by sending five bushels of good
clean Wheat, I will give one barrel of Flour,
pay the freight on the same both ways, they
finding -itih ba'rrcl.
W. C. WILLIAMSON .
July 26, "59. 30-tf '
PLANING MILL, NO. 1.
JOHN S. DAVIS,
OF the Sugar Run Planing Mill, has a large
assortment of Lumber, either rough or
planed, on hand, which will be "sold as low as
any other establishment can afford to. As he
is a practical mechanic, he will guarantee that
his work will be executed in a manner to suit
purchasers, and prices shall correspond to the
quality of the material.
All orders addressed to JOHN S. DAVIS,
Box No. 75, P. O., Pomeroy, or Montgomery &
Hoadley, Wharf-boat, Pomeroy, will be promptly
attended to. may 22, I860. 3-20-y
J. B. HAMPTON,
a 31ANTJFACTURER
SOUTH-EAST CORNER OF COURT AND
Back streets, opposite the new Bank Build
ing, Pomeroy, O. June 21, '59. 23-ly
SOAP AND CANDLE
MANUFACTORY.
rnHE SUBSCRIBER HAS THE PLEASURE
I to announee to the citizens of Pomeroy and
vicinity, that he has opened a shop on Sugar
Run. near the Tannery, where he will manu
facture, and keep constantly on hand, any ar
ticle in his line of business; and we feel assured
that we can give satisfaction to all who may
favor us with a call.
N. B. All orders attended to as soon as pos
sible. DAVID GEYER.
Pomeroy, 1-1. tf
MONTGOMERY & HOADtEY,
STEAMBOAT AGENTS, '
Forwarding and Commission
Merchants,
WHARF-BOAT, POMEROY, O.
Keep-constantly on hand
LIME, PLASTER PARIS, CEMENT, 4c.
TE respectfully request builders, and others In
V neod of the above articles, to eive us a call be
fore mirphnslner elsewhere, as we are confident we
can supply you as cheaply as any other dealer.
April 10, '60. is-am.
A. G. CROWLEY & CO.,
WILL HEREAFTER CARRY ON THE
Carpenter and Joiner business; Doors,
Sash, Blinds, &c., executed to order. From
long experience in business, we feel confident
of giving perfect satisfaction in all orders en
trusted to our care. For past patronage our
thanks are due the public, and we respectfully
ask a continuance of their favors. The Mill is
few doors above Williamson's Flouring
Mill. 1-16-tf
SAW & PLANING MILL.
DAVIS & BEO., Mason City, Va..
DEALERS in Lumber in the rousrh. and Manufactu
rers of Flooring, Ceiling and Weatherboarding.
Planing or all Kinds oone, np lumoer sawea to
order; also keep constantly on hand Sash, Doors.
Blinds, Lath and Shi.igles. Our cash prices for
dressed Lumber are as follows:
Yellow Pino Flooring per thousand - - 9-26 00
White " " " - - SK 50
Ceiling - - - - - - 20 00
weataeTbearurng fiemirnarea leei - - i bo
All orders addressed to Pomeroy P.O. will receive
prompt attention. may 15, '(JO. 19-ly
JOHN ELBEN, M. IX,
HOM(EOPATHIST, AND HYDROPATHIST,
tenders his professional services to the
citizens of Pomeroy and vicinity.
OFFICE, in John Oeyer's Building, (for
merly Jacob Neitzling's,) on Sycamore street,
nearly opposite Lowrys lin shop, Pomeroy, O.
Office Ifouas Till 9 o'clock A. M.; from 1
to 3 o'clock, and from 7 to 8 o'clock P. M.
Gffice Prescriptions, from U5 cents upward,
for cash. June 2, '57. tf
A. SEEBOHM,
DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY.,
DEALER IN OILS, PAINTS, BRUSHES,
Varnishes, Dyestuffs, Perfumery,
and Fancy Articles,"
Front Street, Pomeroy, Ohio.
Prescriptions carefully put up. Jan. 9. 2-2.
REMINGTON HOUSE.
F. 15. RIHELDARFER,
Proprietor,
At the Tiead of Steamboat Landvg
'Front Strcetj Pomeroy, Ohio.
HIRA.M O. DWIIL.
octrg.
BPBIIfO CLEANING.
BY A SUFFERER.
The melancholy days have cornerthe saddest
of the year, '
Of cleaning paint, and scrubbing floors, and
scouring far and near;
Heaped in the co'rHeri of the room; the' ancient
dirt lay quiet, '
Nor rose up at the father's tread, nor to the
children's riot
But now the carpets are all up, and from the
staircase top
The mistress calls to man and maid to wield
the broom and mop.
Where are those roomsthosel cjuie't room, ilia
v house but now presented,
Wherein1 we dwelt, nor dreamed of dirt, so
coy arid cbiitehted?
Alas! they're turned all upside down; that quiet
suit of rooms,
With slops and suds, and soap and sand, and
tubs and pails and brooms;
Chairs, tables, stands, are standing round (it
sixes and at sevens,
While wife and housemaids fly about like mete
ors in the heavens.
The parlor and the chamber floor were cleaned
a week ago, -The
carpets shook, and windows washed, as all
the neighbors know;
But still the sanctum had escaped the table
piled with books,
Pens, ink and paper all about, peace in its very
looks
'Till fell the women on them all, as falls the
plague on men,
And then they vanished all away books, pa
pers, ink and pen.
And now, when comes the master home, as
come he must of nights,
To find all things are "set to wrongs'' that they
have "set to rights;"
When the sound of driving tacks is heard,
though ihe house is far from still,
And the carpet-women on the stairs, that har
binger of ill
He looks for papers, books or bills, that all
were there before,
And sighs to find them on the desk or in the
drawer no more.
And then he grimly thinks of her who sets this
fuss afloat,
And wishes she were but at sea-, in a Very
leaky boat.
He meets her at the parlor door, with hair and
cap awry;
Whh sleeves tucked up, and broom in hand,
defiance in her eye;
He feels quite small, and knows full well,
there's nothing to be said,
So holds his tongue, and drinks his tea, and
sneaks away to bed.
tsc eUang.
Death in a School-Room.
TIIRILLIXG SKETCH FROM LIFE.
Ting-a-ling-ling! vrent the bell on the
teacher's desk of a village school-room,
one morning, when the studies of the
earlier part of the day were about half
completed. It was well understood that
this was the command for silence and at
tention; and when these had been ob
tained, the master spokfe. He was a
low, thick -set mau, and Mb 'name .was
Lugare.
"Boys," said he, "I have a complaint
entered. Last night some of you were
stealing fruit from Mr. Niehol's garden.
I rather think I 'know the thief. Tim
Baker, step up here, sir."
The one to whom he spoke came for
ward. He was a slight, fair-looking
boy, about fourteen, and his face had a
laughing, good-humored expression,
which even the charge now preferred
against him, and the stern tone and
threatening- look of the teacher had not
entirely dissipated. The countenance
of the boy, however, was too unearthly
fair for health; it had, notwithstanding
its fleshy, cheerful look, a singular cast,
as if some inward disease, and that a
fearful one, was seated within. As the
stripling stood before that place of judg
ment, that place so often made the scene
of heartless and coarse brutality, of timid
innocence confused, helpless childhood
outraged, and "gentle feelings crushed,
Lugare looked on him with a frown,
which plainly told that he felt in no
very pleasant mood. Happily a worthier
and more philosophical system is prov
ing to men that schools can be better
governed than by lashes, and tears, and
sighs. We are fast waxing towards
that consummation when one of the old
fashioned schoolmasters, with his cow
hide, his heavy birch-rod, and his many
ingenious methods of child torture, will
be grazed upon as a sacred memento of
an ignorant, cruel, and exploded doc
trine. Many propitious gales speed that
day!
"Were you in Mr. Niehol's garden,
last nightr asked Lugare.
"Yes, sir, answered the boy, "lwas.
"Well, sir, lm glad to nnd you so
with your confession. And so you
thought, you could do a little robbing,
and enjoy yourself in a manner you
rhtto be ashamed to own, without
being punished, did you?"
"I have not been robbinec, replied
the boy, quickly. His face was suffused,
whether with resentment or fright it was
difficult to tell; "and I didn't do any
thine last night that I m ashamed to
own."
'No - impudence!" exclaimed the
teacher passionately, as he grasped
long and heavy ratan; "give me none of
your smart speeches, or I'll thrash you
till you bee like a doe.
The youngster's face paled a little, his
lip quivered, but he did not speak.
"And pray, sir," continued Lugare,
as the outward signs of wfath disap
peared irom his leatures, "what were
you about the garden for? Perhaps you
only received the plunder, and had an
accomplice to do the most dangerous
part of the job?"
"1 went that way because it is oa my
road home. I was there again after
ward, to meet an acquaintance; and
and but I did not go into the garden
nor take anything away from it
would not steal, hardly to save myself
from starving.
"You had better have stuck to that
last evening. You were seen, Tim Baker,
to come from under Mr. Niehol's garden
fence a little after nine o'clock, with a
bag full of something or other over your
shoulders.. The bag had every appear
ance of being filled with fruit, and this
morning the melon beds are found to
have been completely cleared. Now, sir,
what was there in that bag?".
Like fire itself glowed the cheeks of
the detected lad. He spoke not a word.
All the school had their eyes directed to
him. The perspiration ran down his
white forehead like rain drops.
. "Speak, sir!" exclaimed Lugare, with
a loud strike of his ratan on the desk.
" The boy looked as though he would
faint, but the unmerciful teacher, con
fident of having brought to light a crim
inal, and exulting in the idea of the
severe chastisement he should now be
justified in inflicting, kept working him
self up to a still greater degree ot pas
sibn. Ill the meantime the child seemed
hardly to know what id do with himself.
His tongue clave to the roof of his
mouth; Either he was very much
frightened or he was actually unwell.
"Speak, I say!" again thundered
Lugare; and his hand, grasping his
ratan, towered above his head in a very
significant manner.
"I hardly can, sir," said the poor
fellow, faintly. His voice was husky
and thick. "1 will tell you some some
other time. Please to let me go to my
seat I am not well."
"0, yes, that's very likely," and Mr.
Lugare bulged out his hose and cheeks
with contempt. "Do you thihktomake
me believe your lies? I've fdund you
out, sir, plainly enough, and I am satis
fied that you are as precious a villian as
there is in the State. But I will post
pone settling with you for an hour. I
shall then call you up again, and if you
don't tell me the truth then, I will give
you something that'll make you remem
ber Mr. Niehol's melons for many a
mbnth to come. Go to your seat.
Glad enough of the ungracious per
i i j Ad
mission, ana answering noi a souna, iae
child crept trembling to his bench. He
felt strangely, dizzily more as it he was
in a dream than in real life, and laying
his arm on his desk, bowed down his
face between them.
The pupils turned to their accustomed
studies, for, during the reign of Lugare
in the village school, they had been so
used to scenes of violence and severe
chastisement, that such things made but
little interruption in the tenor of their
way.
Now, while the intervening hour is
passing, we will clear up this mystery
of the bag, and of young Baker being
under the garden fence the preceding
evening.
,. The hoy's mother was a widow, and
they both had to live in the very narrow
est limits. His father had died when
he was six years old, and little Tim was
left a sickly, emaciated infant, whom
no one expected to live many months.
To the surprise ot all, however, the
poor child kept alive, and seemed to re
cover his strength, as he certainly did
his size and good looks.
This was owiug to the kind offices of
an eminent physician, who had a country
seat in the neighborhood, and who had
been interested in the widow's little
family. Tim, the physician said, might
possibly outgrow his disease, but every
thing was uncertain. It was a myste
rious and baffling malady, and it would
not be wonderful if he should, in some
moment of apparent good health, be sud
denly taken.away.
She, poor widow, was at nrst-m a con
tinual state of uneasiness, but several
years had now elapsed, and none of the
impending evils had lallen upon the
boy s head. His mother seemed to leel
confident that he would live, and be a
shield and hoflor to her 'old age; and the
two struggled oh together,- mutually
happy in each other, and enduring much
of poverty and discomfort, each for the
other's sake.
Tim's pleasant disposition made hfm
many friends in the village, among the
rest a young farmer named Jones, who,
with his elder brother, worked a large
farm in the neighborhood on shares.
Jones very frequently made Tim a pres
ent of a bag of potatoes or corn, or some
garden vegetables, which he took irom
his own stock; but as his partner was a
parismonious, high-tempered man, and
he had often remarked that lim was an
idle fellow, and ought not to be helped
because he did not work, Jones goner
ally made his presents in such a manner
that no one knew anything about them
except himself and the grateful objects
of his kindness.
It might be, too, that the widow was
loth to have it understood by the neigh
bors that she received food from any one;
for there is always an excusable pride in
people of her condition which makes
them shrink from being considered as
objects of charity, as they would from
the severest pain.
On the night in question, Tim had
been told that Jones would send him a
bag of potatoes, and that the place at
which they were to be waiting for him
was fixed at Mr. Niehol's garden fence.
It was this bag that Tim had been stag
gering under, and which had caused the
unlucky boy to be accused and convicted
by his teacher as a thief.
That teacher was one little fitted for
his important and responsible office.
Hasty to decide, and inflexibly severe,
he was the terror of the little world he
ruled so despotically. Punishment he
seemed to delight in. Knowing little of
those sweet fountains which in children's
breasts open quickly at the call of gen
tleness and kind words, he was feared by
all for his sternness, and loved bv none.
I would that he were an isolated instance
in his profession.
The hour of grace had drawn to a close;
and the time approached at which Lu
gare was to give bis school a joyfully
received dismissioti. Now and then one
of the scholars would direct a furtive
glance at Tim, and sometimes in pity,
sometimes indifference or inquiry. They
knew that he would have no mercy shown
him, and though most of them loved
him, whipping was too common there to
excite much sympathy. Every inquir
ing glance, however, remained unsatis
fied; for, at the end of the hour, Tim re
mained, with his face completely hidden,
and his head bowed down in his arms,
precisely as he had leaned himself when
he.first went to his seat. Lugare looked
at the boy occasionally with a scowl,
which boded vengeance for his sulkiness.
At length the last class had been heard,
and the last lesson recited, and Lugare
seated himself behind his desk on the
platform, with his longest and stoutest
ratanlbefore him.
"Now Baker," he said "we'll settle
that little business of yours. Just step
up here." Tim did not move. The
school-room was as still as the grave.
Not a sound was to be heard, except, oc
casionally a long drawn breath.
"Mind me, sir, or it will be the worse
for you. Step up here and take off ybttr
jacket.".
The troy did not stir any more than if
he had been wood. Lugare shook with
passidti. He sat still a minute, as if con
sidering the best way to wreak his ven
geance. That minute passed In death
like silence, and was a fearful one to
some of the children, for their faces
whitened with fright. It seemed, as it
slowly dropped away, like the minute
which precedes the cliniax of an exquis
itely performed tragedy, when some
mighty master of the histonic art is
treading the stage, and you and the mul
titude around, are waiting with stretched
nerves and suspended breath, in expec
tation of the terrible catastrophe.
"Tim's asleep, Bir," at length said one
of the boys who sat near him.
Lugaje, at this intelligence, allowed
his features to relax from their expres
sion of savage anger, with a smile; but
that smile looked more malignant, if pos
sible, than its former scowls. It might
be that he felt amused at the horror de
picted on the faces of those about him,
or it might be that he was gloating in
pleasure Oh the way in which he in
tended to wake the poor little sltimberer.
"Asleep, are you, my young gentle
man," said he; let us see if we can't find
something to tickle your eyes open.
There is nothing like making the best of
a bad case, boys. Tim, here, is deter
mined n0t.tO .be worried in his mind
about a little flogging, for the thought of
it can't even keep the little scoundrel
awake."
Lugare smiled again as he made the
last observation. He grasped the rattan
firmly and decsended from his seat. With
light and stealthy steps he crossed the
room, and stood by the unlucky sleeper.
The boy was still unconscious of his
impending punishment as ever. He
might be dreaming some golden dream
of youth and pleasure; perhaps he was
far away in the world of fancy, seeing
scenes and feeling delights which col
reality never can bestow.
Lugar lifted his ratan high over his
head, and with the true and expert aim
which he acqniriid by long practice,
brought it down on-; Tim's- back with a
force and whacking sound, which semed
sufficient to wake a freezing man in his
lethargy.
Quick and fast blow followed blow.
Without waiting to see the effect of his
first cut, the brutal wretch plied his in
strument of torture, first on one side of
the boy's back, and then on the other,
and only stopped at the end of two or
three minutes from mere weariness.
But still Tim showed no sign of mo
tion; and as Lugare, provoked at his tor
pidity, jerked away one of the child's
arms, on which he had been leaning
over the desk, his head dropped from his
grasp, and his eyes, stretched wide open,
glared at some monstrous spectacle, of
horror and death. The sweat started in
great globules seemingly from every pore
in his face; his skinny lips contracted,
and showed his teeth and when he at
length stretched forth his arm, and with
the end of one of his fingers touched the
child's cheek, each limb quivered like
the tongue of a snake, and his strength
seemed, as though it would momentarily
fail him.
The boy was dead! He had probably
been so for some time, for his eyes were
turned up, and his body was quite cold.
The widow was now childless, too.
Death was in the school-room, and Lu
gare had been flogging a corpse!
A Tradition.
There is a charming tradition con
nected with the site on which the Tem
ple of Solomon was erected. It is said
to have bee occupied in common by
two brothers, one of whom had a lataily;
the other had none. On this spot there
was sown a field of wheat. On the eve
ning succeeding the harvest, the wheat
having been gathered in separate shocks,
the elder brother eaid unto his wife:
"My young brother is unable to bear
the burden and heat of the day; I will
arise, take of my shocks, and place with
his, without his knowledge."
The younger brother, beingactuated by
the same benevolent motives, said within
himself:
"My elder broiher has a family, and
I have none; I will contribute to their
support; I will arise, take of my shocks,
and place them with his, without his
knowledge."
Judge of their mutual astonishment
when on the following morning, they
found their respective shocks undimin
ished. This course of events transpired
for several nights, when each resolved
in his own mind to stand guard and
solve the mvsterv. Thev did so; half
way between their respective shocks,
with their arms full. Upon the ground
hallowed with such associations as this
was the Temple of Solomon erected so
spacious and magnificent, the wonder
and admiration of the world. Alas! in
these days, how many would sooner
steal their brother's whole shock than
add a single sheaf!
Hamlin Thought to be a. Negro.
The Knoxville, Tenn.. Whiff, whose
editor claims to know Hannibal Hamlin
the Black Kepublican nominee for the
Vice Presidency, thus speaks of him.
Though senator in Uongress, ne is
said to be a Free Negro. In all the ac
quirements of mind, manners, morals,
features, complexion, form of body and
limbs, shape of mouth and nose, woolly
hair,with kinks, he so much resembles a
nerro. that dressed tin indifferently, he
could be sold in the South for a field hand
He claims to be part Portuguese, but the
sober truth is, his blood is that ot K lg
gergee, resembling a Iree .Negro more
than any man living who claims to be a
white man, cither in whole or in part.
Racine, Jane 22d, 1850.
Editor of the Telegraph Dear
Sir: Inclosed with this you will find an
Essay on " Vacation" by Miss Mollie
Lallancc, of our place, which a large
number of her friends desire to see pub
lished. It was read at the close of our
"High School." For easy naturalness
and simplicity of style, and felicity and
vigor ot thought, 1 think it seldom
equaled, and very seldom surpassed, by
those beginning in the truly difficult, yet
desirable art of composition.
Your Correspondent.
VACATION.
The close of the session is at hand.
We have passed through our examina
tions, and this evening's performance will
close the present session. It is near mid
summer and nature is all inviting to the
tired student, who has been so closely
confined in the school-room from the
dreary days of winter. The vernal flow
ers have come, and some, alas, have al
ready faded and died. We have been en
gaged in the school-rtidm, and the many
months have formed an attachment
among the students easily discernable but
not so easily dissolved.. Now comes va
cation with all its pleasures perchance a
few troubles. Vacation! what a pleasant
word it is! Deeply a3 I am interested in
education, much as I am attached to my
schoolmates, and however much pleas
ure I may find in my studies, yet the an
nual return of the summer vacation is
always expected with delight, and hailed
with welcome. The evening bell of the
last day of the term is the signal for me
to throw aside my books for a short time
and enjoy the many pleasures of the va
cation, among which, is a ramble in the
country. How beautiful! . Nothing
could promise more pleasure to the wea
ried spirits after a term of confinement
in the scbool-room, surrounded by nu
merous text books, and just before us a
huge blackboard staring at us, as, it
were, like a black cloud before a thunder
storm. But what sound is more full of
cheer to the tired student and the more
tired teacher than vacation. To the first
it tells of release from study, a visit home,
the joyful welcome of parents, brothers
and sisters attd the enjoyment of many
vacation pleasures too numerous-to be
mentioned. To the teacher it is the wel
come signal of respite from toil. He
hails vacation with joy because he then
becomes for a time a free man.
- There is a prevailing opinion in the
community, that the life of a teacher, if
not lucrative, is at least very easy. This
can never be true of an instructor who
does his duty. Much physical exertion,
it is true, is not required, but there is a
mental employment that is more op
pressive than labor of the body. Some
persons regard nothing as labor- which
does not exercise the muscles, not in
cluding those of the vocal organs. But
such individuals might easily ascertain
by trial, that the most severe demands
on the physical system, are those arising
from long continued mental exertion.
But a teacher's labors are really both
physical and intellectual, the employ
ment of the vcice is not only fatigueing.
but also calls into action more muscles
of the system, than several, of the mere
physical employments, let there are
some troubles mingled with the pleas
ures of vacation. Mothers warn
daughters to the kitchen, and to attend
to various household duties, for they
think it as necessary to know how to
prepare a good dinner as to acquire any
other accomplishment. Although, to
some, a very unpleasant duty, yet it is
one which all ought to pertorm cheer
fully, for what use would 6ur education
be, if it did not prepare us to enter into
details of domestic life.. But to those
who consider work a great task, vacation
has but few charms. And therefore
when it is time to return to their books,
instead of being refreshed and ready to
return to their work with new zeal, they
are discontented and unnappy. x ininK
that we ought to study hard and improve
every passing moment, so that when we
are advanced in age there will be no
cause for regrets for time misimproved
But now, my schoolmates, the time has
come for us to part. Perhaps some of us
will never meet gam on earth, but we
will hope tor the better, and wish you
all a happy vacation and hope to see
you all in the school-room at the com
mencement of our next session. We
can never pay the debt ot gratitude we
owe to our teacher for the interest he
has taken in the welfare of each one of
us. But may we each one endeavor to
fill our stations so as to reflect eredit on
him, and for a short time we now bid
him adieu. My friends: When I look
among you. I behold many who have
come out this evening to parcipitate ; in
our pleasures before separating for a short
vacation, for which kindness you have
our most sincere thanks, and may ach
one go to his home benefitted by our
well meaning, but poor entertainments
Mollie Lallance.
fiST-The Augnsta (Ga.) Dispatch j
states that Mrs. tT. W. Freeman, while
asleep in her room at her residence, was
awakened by a strange noise, followed
by a sensation in her head. Un examina
tion, she found herself shot in the jaw,
and the bed clothes on fire. The fire
was soon extinguished, and a physician
was called, who extracted a ball from
the wound, which was found not to be
dangerous. Footsteps were heard on
the stairs as she awoke, but no certain
clue has been obtained as to the perpe-
Irator of tbe honi jl ontrage. Her
carriage driver, who had been guilty of
some misdemeanor, and had reason to
expect punishment, is suspected, and has
been lodged in jail.
Female Farming.
Mrs. Elizabeth Langdon, of Rye,
Westchester County New York, has es
tablished in that town a Female Farm
ing and Floral Home for training young
females to the pursuit of agriculture and
floriculture, at the same time that they
are intellectually educated and formed
to the habits of domestic thrift; and she
appeals to all friends of humanity to aid
her in making the institution self-supporting.
The Farmer's Club of the
American Institute have endorsed her
project as
support.
being every way worthy of
A Visit .to Hcrenlanemm and Pompeii-
Harriet ETeecher Ston e's Impressions !
of tbe Buried Cities."
In the last number of the New York
Independent, Harriet Beecher Stowe
writes thus of her visit to' Herculaneum
and Pompeii:
About an hour's drive brought us to
the village of Portici, which is built
over Herculaneum. We alighted a'nbt
went into a common-looking house,
where an old man provided us all with
candles, and then opened a door which
appeared to go down into a cellar, and
we all began to descend.
Oh btir right and left we could see
the marks of the pickaxes which had cut
the passage down which we were tread
ing, through a bank ot solid lava, hard
and glassy. Down lower, the damps
dripped and oozed along the walls, and
the rumble of carriages overhead sounded
strangely in contrast to the ghostly dark
ness and stillness into which we were
descending. It was the old theater of
Herculaneum we were coming into
a building as large as the San Carlos,
which is said to be the largest in the
world.
We heard the bats flapping
overhead, squeaking and
squeaking and gibbering as
the unwonted light disturbed them. We
passed through long galleries to the
stage, to the green-rooni saw here and
there traces of vermilion ceiling or partly
effaced freco saw the places of the or
chestra, and stepped on the moss-grown
stage. Ihe very fact that it had once
been a place of amusement added to the
heavy, ghostly chill the sense of death
and desolation. We saw the bases, with
inscriptions, from which had been taken
the equestrian statues of the " Two
Balbi," father and soil, which we had
seen in the museum the day beiore
Every space thus made must be carefully
bricked up again because of the living
town above. The first discovery of the
town, it is 'well known, was from the
sinking of a well for the convenience Of
a family above, which well came into this
theater.
Beside the two equestrian statues df
" Jialbus, are several marble ones
called the "Mother, Wife, and Daugh
ters." The statue called the "Mother,"
is a most striking one It is of an el
derly woman of majestic presence, and
impressed with such deep lines of tragic
prescience, that one might fancy it the
statue of one who foresaw the desolation
that was about to entomb her city.-
Most singular in its force of character
and strength of expression is that statue
one of those portraits that so evidently
suggest a history that one longs to
know the original. This family, distin
guisned tor personal dignity and pres
ence, and holding so high a place in
public esteem, reveals itself to us after
a silence of centuries. How impressive
and awful it must have been to have
found them iu these subterranean reces
ses, standing silent, awful! I fancied
how that pale, strong, fateful face of the
mother ot Balbus must have looked
when down in these oozy damps the
light of the discovering torch first flared
upon it. The history of pride, passion,
and sorrow, which have written them
selves on that strange face, must ' have
had a startling power, looking on out
in their stony stillness from the silence
of so deep a night of so long and stony
an entombiiftinW
Our party was a large one many of
them young and full of spirits, and trod
the desolated way with many a - gay
word and light laugh yet even the fair
young taces and the thoughtless laughs
had a ghostly, unnatural look and
sound in that depressing stillness.-
When we emerged to the daylight, one
young maiden appeared to veiw bearing
a beautiful lull-blown rose, which sh
said she had picked up oh the damp
floor below.
Ihe blooming child ot upper air
seemed to us an incredible marvel to
emerge from so death-like shades, and
we wondered and speculated how it got
there. Such, doubtless, once grew in
the gardens of that subterranean city,
and lying back in the carraige. and shut
ting one's eyes, one might have fancied
it the ghost of a rose from some of those
buried gardens a rose that should look
just like another, but should gradually
dissolve and fade from Yiew in upper re
giOttSv T
fcOMPEH.
We arrived at Pomp'eii at about twelve
o'clock, and went into a little caravan
serai to get a lunch, before entering oa
our explorations.
In an upper chamber, all hung round
with French lithographs, we took our
lunch. A man with a guitar soon found
his way to the balcony, on to which our
room opened, and began playing and
singing airs, the very sound of which
seemed to say: "Be easy, have a good
time, dance and sing while the sun
shines. - ... .
The character of "these Neapolitan airs
strongly reminds me'bf the gayer class
of negro melodies the same strongly
accentuated rhymetical character and
sharp expression of time the same care
less abandon of gayety. He sang, and
we laughed he intimated carlini, and
we paid them and then off he went
singing again, till we laughed more and
paid more carlini he improvised sly
compliments, and had suggestions of
bella and amor which led to more car
llni but we were to good-natured to de
mur, and altogether he made a good
thing of 'lis doubtless, careless, jocular
dog that he was, full to his throat with
the sunshine Of this bright day.
Pompeii is a much more airy and
sunny expedition than Ilerculaneum.
It seems to have been buried by drifting
ashes, much as our fences in New Eng
land are sometimes hidunder snow-drifts
and over these drifts grass and flowers
have become green and gay. The un
excavated part looks like a green hill
or mound, and only about a third of it
is excavated. Unlike Herculaneum, the
work of disentombment is easy enough.
No superincumbent city to be disturbed
by mining beneath, and the material to
be removed being light, loose ashes, of
fers scarce any obstacle.
B-The latest Irish bull we read of,
is the case of an Irish gentleman who, I
in order to raise the wind whereby tore-;
lieve himself from pecuniary embarrass-1
mcnt, got his life insured tor a large
j amount, and then drowned himself.
From ths Ohio Cultivator.
THE CATTLE DISEASK.
Just as we had closed- the last No.-of
the Cultivator, we" received an appoint
ment, in connection with' Mr. Klippart
and Dr. Robt. Thompsoh; of this city, to"
proceed iast tor tne purpose of investi
gating the nature and results of the" (tat
tle disease, of which we gave some ac
count in the Cultivator for June 1. The
GSvefhor of Mass. had convened the'
Legislature of that State in special ses
sion", to take further measures for arrest
ing the disease. . The . Legislature of
Conn, had afscf tskeh the matter in hand,
and the State' Agricultural Society of
New J ersey held a' special, meeting for"
the same purpose.. $Jr. Klippart pro
ceeded to Mass., Dr. Thompson to" Conn.,
and we visited New Jersey and" fne re
gion about N. Y. City. ' The cases in
New Jersey were ably conducted bv Dr.
Gryce, V. S., ofN. Y. in the presence of
twenty or thirty eminent stock raisers
and scientific gentlemen. The malady
was imported to New Jersejr by cattTtf
brought from N Y; City; ; and after a;
careful surgical examihatiotr of two ani
mals, a bull that had died the day be
fore, and a cow killed for the purpose
the same day, the disease was BrOnfl'tintegil
identical with that now extant in Mass.
The present locations of the' disease in
New Jersey are at Chatham and Ne'watlf.
A few days later, an examination watf
held, at Williamsburg, N. Y., opposite
the city of N. Y., where the Bwill milk
disease created so much" disgust," a few"
years agd, and here the "stump tail" or"
Bwm mat disease, was declared to be th"
same as the pleuro-pnemnoia. We are"
hardly prepared to credit this, but the
gentlemen who conducted the examina
tions are much better informed on the
subject than we possibly can be. At
least there can be no question but that
unwholesome stables, or stables of any
kind, have a direct tendency to hasten
the development of the disease, the same
as distillery pens hasten the development
or tne nog cnoiera m swine;
Thus far the disease is khbwft bhlv ftf
be propagated by direct contact within;
tecred attinials, and although these hate
been unwittingly scattered over consid
erable territory in thB States above men
tioned, yet we have strong and cdarndent
expectations that the subject fcsis fed taken"
hold ot the public mind as to prevent
the further extension of the mischief, be-
yond the regions already infected. A4
tne time ot our visit East, the slaughter
of suspected and condemned animals iix
Mass. had reached to more than a thou
sand head, and the value assessed at ove?
$100,000. The . best precautionary
measure is the complete isolation of
healthy herds from all ' contact with
strange cattle, an entire prohibition 6f ..
cattle from the East, and an early resort
to some plan, for preventing cattle from
running at large in the streets, to ttairrjr
infection to herds within enclosed
fields-. .. . -
As so'dn as the members of the Com
misssi'on can prepare a Report of theif
investigations, the public will be apprised
of the result. - v- '
Lincoln Endorsed by a Political Oppo
nent. . ....
The National Intelligencer th sym
pathies of which are with Bell and Evc
retfr, but which will not stoop td per
sonal detraction and unseemly abuse df
political opponents, thus speaks of Mrv
Lincoln: "
"A native of Kentucky, Mfi Lincoln
has been for many years a citizen of tluS
State of Illinois, - in whose ' Legislator
he served with distinction during four
successive terms. Elected to the Hotisc '
of Representatives in the year 1847, and'
acting at that time with the Whig party
he was distinguished alike for the. abil
ity and amenity which he brought td
the discharge of his public duties. -Though
of late years retired frdin th
walks of political life, he was selected
by the Republican party of Illinois a
their standard blearer, in th exciting
contest waged in the summer of i85S
before the people of that State for . the,
succession to the Senatorial chair made
vacant by the expiration of the term of
service for which the Hon. Stephen A-.-Douglas
has been elected.
That selection was a tribute no l'esi
to the political position held by Mr.
Lincoln among his confederates than to
the popular talents he is admitted by all
to possess" and in consequence of th
deep and wide public interest that wa
felt in the issue of the contest btetwee'n
him and Mr. Douglas, his name acquired,
a new celebrity beyond the bounds of
his State, while the manner in which
he bore himself throughout that arduous
struggle has doubtless largely 'contTib".
uted to procure for him the distinction
he has just received at the hands of his'
party, assembled in general Convention-."7
A Sensible Doctor on Doses.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who
seems to understand physic as "well irti
he does poetry, at a recent meeting of
the Massachusetts Medical Society, lit
tered this sarcasm on the American,
greed for medicine:
"How could a people, who have a rev
olnticm once in fcrar years, who have
contrived the bowie kuife and revolver,
who have chewed the j'uie'e d'ut of all the
superlatives in the language in Fourth,
of July orations, and so used up its epi
thets in the rhetoric of abuse, that ft '
takes two great quarto dictionaries tVr
supply the demand; which insists in
seeding out yacht and horses, and boy's,
to outsail, outrun, outfight and check
mate all the rest of creation how wnM
such a people be content with anything
but heroic practice? What wonder that1
the stars and stripes wave oVer doses of
ninety grains of fculphafe of quinine"
and that the American eagle scvcjtms
with delight to see three drachms of
calomel given at a single mouthful?"1
New Orleans to Supply tbe Norlls w 1th'
Peaehies.
It is expected that 'th'6 peach crop of
Louisiana, this year, will be so htrc,
that the New Orleans market will I ft
overrun, and it is proposed to nhij), by'
express peaches frofei Mississippi to
Chicago, where they will arrive at leavt
two moftths in advance of the PCiifou
North. Arrangements are being made
by Adams' Southern Express, for thfr
transportation of the luscious fruit W
Cincinnati
Chicago, St. Louit;, Loul1
j villc, &c-.